Coe, P., Moosavian, R. and Wragg, P. (2025) Addressing Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs): a Critical Interrogation of Legislative, and Judicial Responses. Journal of Media Law. ISSN 1757-7632
Abstract
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are abusive legal actions or threats brought by powerful parties to suppress criticism. This article is the first to interrogate the efficacy of the policy and legislative responses to SLAPPs in Europe and in England and Wales. It is also the first to provide extensive analysis of how SLAPPs have, to date, been treated by domestic courts, and how judges have applied the Civil Procedure Rules to the phenomenon. In assessing the existing early disposal mechanisms that have hitherto been deployed in these cases, and the early disposal mechanism prescribed in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 anti-SLAPP provisions, it argues that they are flawed, and in the case of ECCTA, a false dawn for tackling SLAPPs. Furthermore, and significantly, it advances an alternative model for a novel dedicated SLAPP early disposal mechanism.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered,transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | SLAPPs; Defamation; Civil procedure; Europe; England and Wales |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2024 11:29 |
Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2025 09:16 |
Published Version: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17577... |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17577632.2024.2443096 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217603 |